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KETHAM, Johannes de (fl. 1455-70). Fasciculus medicinae. - PETRUS DE TUSSIGNANO (fl. 1400). Consilium pro peste evitanda. - MUNDINUS (ca. 1275-1326). Anatomia. Edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregorii, de Forlivio, 15 October 1495.
Super-chancery 2o (289 x 199 mm). Collation: a-f6 g4 (a1r title and contents, a1v woodcut of Petrus de Montagnana studying at a book-lined podium, a2r woodcut of the same with medical students and an attendant holding a urine flask, 2v woodcut diagram of the 4 temperaments and 24 types of urine, a3r Fasciculus medicinae, d3v Petrus de Tussignano, e3r Mundinus, g4v colophon). 40 leaves. 53 lines, double column. Types: 30:156G (title, lines 1-2), 31:135G (title, lines 3-15), 29:90G (text), 19:64G, 24bis:55G, 26:110R (letterpress captions to woodcuts). 10 full-page woodcuts, 9 of medical scenes or anatomy, one a diagram (as above). 119 11- to 3-line woodcut initials from several sets, 5 initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Woodcuts cropped, affecting outer edges of most images, b2 [woodcuts on recto and verso] with tiny marginal tears and small stain at bottom, occasional minor marginal worming, marginal foxing affecting edges of woodcuts). Goff K-14; BMC V, 347 (IB. 21101); HC *9775; IGI 5299; Klebs 573.2; Polain (B) 2411; Dyson Perrins 92; Dibner Heralds of Science 121; Essling 587; Garrison & Morton 363, 363.1; Sander 3745; Wellcome 3544; Norman 1211.
[Bound with:]
SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele (d. 1462/64). De omnibus mundi balneis. Venice: Cristophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 20 November [1496].
Super-chancery 2o. Collation: A-D6 E-F4 (A1r title, A1v table, A2r text, F4r colophon and register, F4v blank). 32 leaves, foliated (with errors). 59 lines and foliation, double column. Type: 3:82R. Spaces for initials, most with guide letters. (Marginal dampstaining at end.) Goff S-292; BMC V, 470 (IB. 23494); HC *14492=H 14495; Klebs 884.3; Norman 1896.
Together two works in one volume, old boards, edges stained green (rebacked, somewhat stained); modern folding morocco case. Provenance: a few early marginalia (cropped).
Ketham: Second Latin edition, fourth edition overall. The Fasciculus medicinae is a compilation of late medieval medical texts that had circulated widely in manuscript, some since the thirteenth century, covering surgery, urology, herbal remedies, obstetrics and gynecology, and (in Petrus de Tussignano's treatise on the plague) epidemiology. "Johannes de Ketham" has been identified as the 15th-century Viennese physician and professor of medicine Johann von Kircheim, who probably compiled and edited the texts for his lectures. The first edition was printed by the brothers de Gregoriis in 1491; apart from two or three single earlier woodcuts, it was the first printed book to contain anatomical illustrations. Of the six woodblocks used in the 1491 edition, five were abandoned and recut for the first vernacular edition, issued by the same printers in February 1493/94, with the addition of four new woodcuts, including the two frontispiece scenes of the Paduan physician Petrus de Montagnana, a doctor treating a plague victim, and a cut of Mondino delivering a lecture on dissection while a demonstration is carried out below. (The Italian edition added to the original text Mondino's important Anatomia, included thenceforth in all later editions.) With the single exception of the last mentioned illustration, which was recut for the present edition, the blocks of the Italian edition were re-employed here and in the numerous later editions. These last four woodcuts are considered the earliest realistic illustrations to be used in a medical book. Praised by Hind as the "greatest piece of illustration in the classic style in XVth-century Venetian books," they were attributed by him to Gentile Bellini, an attribution that has since been modified to the school of Bellini. Of the more primitive woodcuts from the 1491 edition -- the diagram of the temperaments, bloodletting man, zodiacal man, wound man, disease man, and a pregnant woman in a squatting position -- all but the second were recut for the Italian edition and used again here. It has been repeatedly stated, following Herrlinger (p. 66), that the original "non-representational" cut of the squatting pregnant woman in the 1491 edition was improved upon by the engraver of the Italian edition, who showed her in a "more realistic" seated position.
Savonarola: Third edition of the [Ferrarese?] physician Giovanni Michele Savonarola's treatise on the baths and hot springs of Italy and their medicinal properties. "Savonarola took a skeptical approach to the subject, relying on his own observations and rejecting the notion that baths owed their virtues to occult or supernatural properties. Included in his work is the first recorded instance of a clock being used to regulate an actual, purposive experiment -- in this case, a comparison of the water temperatures of two Italian hot springs" (Norman).
Super-chancery 2o (289 x 199 mm). Collation: a-f6 g4 (a1r title and contents, a1v woodcut of Petrus de Montagnana studying at a book-lined podium, a2r woodcut of the same with medical students and an attendant holding a urine flask, 2v woodcut diagram of the 4 temperaments and 24 types of urine, a3r Fasciculus medicinae, d3v Petrus de Tussignano, e3r Mundinus, g4v colophon). 40 leaves. 53 lines, double column. Types: 30:156G (title, lines 1-2), 31:135G (title, lines 3-15), 29:90G (text), 19:64G, 24bis:55G, 26:110R (letterpress captions to woodcuts). 10 full-page woodcuts, 9 of medical scenes or anatomy, one a diagram (as above). 119 11- to 3-line woodcut initials from several sets, 5 initial spaces with printed guide letters. (Woodcuts cropped, affecting outer edges of most images, b2 [woodcuts on recto and verso] with tiny marginal tears and small stain at bottom, occasional minor marginal worming, marginal foxing affecting edges of woodcuts). Goff K-14; BMC V, 347 (IB. 21101); HC *9775; IGI 5299; Klebs 573.2; Polain (B) 2411; Dyson Perrins 92; Dibner Heralds of Science 121; Essling 587; Garrison & Morton 363, 363.1; Sander 3745; Wellcome 3544; Norman 1211.
[Bound with:]
SAVONAROLA, Giovanni Michele (d. 1462/64). De omnibus mundi balneis. Venice: Cristophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, 20 November [1496].
Super-chancery 2o. Collation: A-D6 E-F4 (A1r title, A1v table, A2r text, F4r colophon and register, F4v blank). 32 leaves, foliated (with errors). 59 lines and foliation, double column. Type: 3:82R. Spaces for initials, most with guide letters. (Marginal dampstaining at end.) Goff S-292; BMC V, 470 (IB. 23494); HC *14492=H 14495; Klebs 884.3; Norman 1896.
Together two works in one volume, old boards, edges stained green (rebacked, somewhat stained); modern folding morocco case. Provenance: a few early marginalia (cropped).
Ketham: Second Latin edition, fourth edition overall. The Fasciculus medicinae is a compilation of late medieval medical texts that had circulated widely in manuscript, some since the thirteenth century, covering surgery, urology, herbal remedies, obstetrics and gynecology, and (in Petrus de Tussignano's treatise on the plague) epidemiology. "Johannes de Ketham" has been identified as the 15th-century Viennese physician and professor of medicine Johann von Kircheim, who probably compiled and edited the texts for his lectures. The first edition was printed by the brothers de Gregoriis in 1491; apart from two or three single earlier woodcuts, it was the first printed book to contain anatomical illustrations. Of the six woodblocks used in the 1491 edition, five were abandoned and recut for the first vernacular edition, issued by the same printers in February 1493/94, with the addition of four new woodcuts, including the two frontispiece scenes of the Paduan physician Petrus de Montagnana, a doctor treating a plague victim, and a cut of Mondino delivering a lecture on dissection while a demonstration is carried out below. (The Italian edition added to the original text Mondino's important Anatomia, included thenceforth in all later editions.) With the single exception of the last mentioned illustration, which was recut for the present edition, the blocks of the Italian edition were re-employed here and in the numerous later editions. These last four woodcuts are considered the earliest realistic illustrations to be used in a medical book. Praised by Hind as the "greatest piece of illustration in the classic style in XVth-century Venetian books," they were attributed by him to Gentile Bellini, an attribution that has since been modified to the school of Bellini. Of the more primitive woodcuts from the 1491 edition -- the diagram of the temperaments, bloodletting man, zodiacal man, wound man, disease man, and a pregnant woman in a squatting position -- all but the second were recut for the Italian edition and used again here. It has been repeatedly stated, following Herrlinger (p. 66), that the original "non-representational" cut of the squatting pregnant woman in the 1491 edition was improved upon by the engraver of the Italian edition, who showed her in a "more realistic" seated position.
Savonarola: Third edition of the [Ferrarese?] physician Giovanni Michele Savonarola's treatise on the baths and hot springs of Italy and their medicinal properties. "Savonarola took a skeptical approach to the subject, relying on his own observations and rejecting the notion that baths owed their virtues to occult or supernatural properties. Included in his work is the first recorded instance of a clock being used to regulate an actual, purposive experiment -- in this case, a comparison of the water temperatures of two Italian hot springs" (Norman).